Hon Chairperson, I will not bother myself in responding to other parties which were not part of the process and were not part of interviews or short listing. They do not even know the CVs of these candidates. Let me say from start that there was a consensus on certain candidates amongst the parties especially the EFF and DA. We did not agree on issues where they wanted us to put weak candidates.
DA is suffering from Hlaudi Motsoeneng syndrome and I will not get into that because we have passed that long time ago. I do not know why they keep on re-thatching this issue. The opposition to Professor Cooper, David Maimela and Benjamin Lekalaka by DA in particular is